This feature Guest Post by Mary Jane Fietze was originally published in the Winter 2016 issue of Disability Issues,a publication of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Cambridge, MA. Photos provided by Nate Berry of AccessSportsAmerica. Thank you AccessSportsAmerica for focusing on fitness for people with disabilities!!!
Are
you looking for a place to work out but are intimidated by the bulked-up
body-builders that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger at your gym?Is the equipment simply not made for someone
with your disability?Have you employed
a personal trainer whom, frankly, did not understand your disability?Does this sound like a TV ad that you might
hear after all your New Year’s Resolutions are broken?Well, expect the unexpected.